Exposure [Hardcover]

“Dunmore so cleverly interweaves each of the character's stories that as the tale unfolds it has the chilling ring of absolute authenticity. It’s gripping and page turning and all those things you expect in a Spy Drama—but always laced with her trademark humanity. I was totally caught up in the story which is paced perfectly. Her best book yet.”—Mavis Cheek

Virtuoso storyteller Helen Dunmore returns with a thrilling Cold War espionage tale in which the closest ties are called into question and nobody is quite who they seem.

It’s London, 1960. The Cold War is at its height, and a spy may be a friend or neighbor, colleague or lover. Two colleagues, Giles Holloway and Simon Callington, face a terrible dilemma over a missing top-secret file. At the end of a suburban garden, in the pouring rain, Simon’s wife, Lily, buries a briefcase containing the file deep in the earth. She believes that in doing so she is protecting her family. What she will learn is that no one is immune from betrayal or the devastating consequences of exposure.

Helen Dunmoreis the author of twelve books, includingThe Lie,The Greatcoat;The Betrayal,aNew York TimesEditors’ Choice;The Siege, a bestseller and finalist for the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; andA Spell of Winter, winner of the Orange Prize.

“Dunmore has always been fantastic on the complexity of people’s motivations and the secret reasons they act as they do. This book is no exception . . . This may be an unconventional thriller, but it’s still a page turner for that . . . As the narrative unfolds we realize that this is the novel’s beating heart: It’s as much a surprising love story as it is a tale of spies.” —Kate Hamer,New York Times Book Review

Much like a slick, shape-shifting spook,Exposureis many things at once—anl32